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Gin and tonic. Photo by Nathan Blaney/ Getty Images
Snap-click, ahh, gulp. It’s a familiar sound at a barbecue, an ingredient in summertime nostalgia. Who doesn’t crave a fizzy drink on a hot summer day?
Indeed, sales of carbonated water have seen a...

Apple Model Management’s L.A. director, Cecilio Asuncion, with the six models who will launch the firm’s modeling agency for transgender models this summer. Photo courtesy of Apple Model Management
At a time when transgender models are...

Australian author Richard Flanagan, who wrote “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” speaks after winning the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction at the Guildhall in London, October 14, 2014. The Man Booker Prize announced the 2015 longlist...

A whistleblower tells Larry Kotlikoff about a number of Social Security practices he considers unfair and dishonest. Photo by Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images
Boston University economist Larry Kotlikoff has spent every week, for over two years,...

Mullah Omar of Afghanistan’s Taliban regime is shown in this undated U.S. National Counterterrorism Center image. Photo by National Counterterrorism Center/Handout via Reuters
Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who has been in hiding since...

Hospitals are employing laborists, doctors who handle births and obstetrical and gynecological emergencies, as they seek to improve patient safety and as physicians increasingly recognize they need help responding to emergencies. Photo by Getty...